Rabah Arezki

Rabah Arezki is a professor and director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He previously held senior leadership positions at the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.

Articles by Rabah Arezki

An artisanal gold miner, digs at the bottom of a narrow gold shaft in the Kamituga artisanal mine, in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sept. 20, 2024.

The New Gold Rush

Analysis

March 6, 2025, 2:01 PM

People walking past a banner of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers on Sept. 5.

Algeria Needs an Economic Transformation

Argument

October 16, 2024, 1:20 PM

Protesters clash with riot police at the Porte d'Aix in Marseille, France.

How the Myth of Colorblindness Endangers France’s Future

Argument

August 22, 2023, 6:53 AM

A cow grazes in front of the Mooifontein Colliery coal supplier in South Africa.

How to Slow Climate Change While Fighting Poverty

Argument

November 7, 2022, 4:26 PM

A pupil stands at the entrance of a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Aug. 29, 2018.

To Fix Foreign Aid, Pay the Poor Directly

Argument

October 15, 2021, 12:48 PM

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